Thanks .... we ended up finding out how to do a system restore, so we
restored to couple days back, and all seems fine now. Really didn't have
anything significant that we backed up over.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

> When you reset the resolution, what settings did you try? I'd go with 800X
> 600 with a screen refresh rate of about 75 hertz and see if those settings
> will stick.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Ron Badour
> MS MVP Shell User
>
>
> "Bruce" <Bruce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2304F8F0-66BE-4CB8-8E72-A31A3B2947F2@microsoft.com...
> > So, that helped for what I asked about, but it didn't help the
> > problem....I
> > reset to a different resolution, but the setting doesn't stick. And then,
> > I'm still booting and getting that message.
> > The screen goes to black with the message below:
> >
> > Cannot display this video mode. Optimum Resolution 1440 x 900 60hz
> >
> > Do you have any idea what's happening here?
> > I'm running a virus scan to see if something hopped on today.
> > I uninstalled the program for the game she tried to install.
> > Is there a way to go back to yesterday's settings........when everything
> > was
> > fine?
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
> >
> >> Restart, and during the black screen just after the BIOS screen, press F8
> >> many times.
> >>
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> >> Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
> >> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Mark.Ferguson
> >>
> >> "Bruce" <Bruce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:61720CD4-D415-4739-AD7F-22EB187DD33A@microsoft.com...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > One of my kids tried putting in an old game, which tried to reset the
> >> > screen
> >> > resolution. Now all we get is a message that says..... " Cannot
> >> > display
> >> > this
> >> > video mode. Optimum Resolution 1440 x 900 60hz"
> >> > Now we cannot get past this black screen message. ESC won't work.
> >> > Ctrl-
> >> > Alt- DEL won't work. I tried turning off the computer and turning it
> >> > back
> >> > on, to no avail.
> >> >
> >> > I need to restart the computer in safe mode and then reset the screen
> >> > res.....and I don't know how to do that.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for help.
> >> > Bruce
> >> >
>
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